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Also Known As University of the City of New York
Date 1831 - present
Notable Alumni Martin Scorsese • Alan Greenspan • Mohamed ElBaradei • Linda Nochlin • Eric Kandel • Ocean Vuong • Louis Nirenberg • John Oliver Killens • James Franco • Angelina Jolie • Stuart Rosenberg • Alec Baldwin • Spike Lee • Bill de Blasio • Billy Crystal • Philip Seymour Hoffman • Robert Mueller • Audrey Flack • Eugenie Clark • Joan Mitchell • John O’Keefe • Judy Blume • Sarah Silverman • Christy Turlington • Carl Icahn • Rudy Giuliani • Ma Ying-jeou • Ang Lee • Charlie Kaufman • Maya Deren • Lamar Alexander • Walter Mischel • Kyle Abraham • Elihu Root • Jonas Salk • Alan Menken • John Wellborn Root • Mahershala Ali • Hale Woodruff • Jeffrey Katzenberg • Annie Baker • Paul Thomas Anderson • Marvin Miller • Albert Bruce Sabin • Ed Koch • Neil Diamond • Ursula Burns • William Bernbach • Constance Baker Motley • Ada Louise Huxtable • Frederick Reines • Lucy Lippard • Neil Simon • Cynthia Ozick • Martha Coolidge • Jorie Graham • Wayne Shorter • Florence Ellinwood Allen • Ben Shahn • Philip Pearlstein • George Weinberg • Jack Dorsey • Nancy Grace • Romare Bearden • Jim Jarmusch • Meir Kahane • Pearl Primus • Arthur M. Sackler • Clifford G. Shull • George Wald • Ada Limón • Idina Menzel • Nia DaCosta • Alexander Soros • Marcia Gay Harden • Danai Gurira • Pedro Pascal • Hun Manet • Hakeem Jeffries • Ayo Edebiri • Donald Glover • Andy Samberg • Alexander Girard • Kristen Bell • Chloé Zhao • Kenneth Lonergan • Louis Gossett, Jr. • Martha Nussbaum • M. Night Shyamalan • Joel Coen • Billy Crudup
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